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Everything about Color blindness
Decreased ability to see color or color differences
Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) is the decreased ability to see color, differences in color, or distinguish shades of color. The severity of color blindness ranges from mostly unnoticeable to full absence of color perception. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Color blindnessA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Two-dimensional biocompatible plasmonic contact lenses for color blindness correctionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Guess How Much I Love YouThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Racial Color BlindnessCited 286 times
- Go sideways: Congenital red–green color blindnessA closely related topic
- Go sideways: MonochromacyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia or Daltonism.
Noun An indifference to a person's skin color or race.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Racial Color Blindness
Exposing Color Blindness/Grounding Color Consciousness
Human Color Vision and Color Blindness
Color blindness
Color Blindness
Color Blindness and Rorschach Color Responsivity
Congenital Color Blindness
Monocular Color Blindness
🆕 Influential since 2022
Two-dimensional biocompatible plasmonic contact lenses for color blindness correction
3D printed contact lenses for the management of color blindness
Fabrication of 3D‐Printed Contact Lenses and Their Potential as Color Blindness Ocular Aids
Leveraging an App to Support Students with Color-Vision Deficiency and Color-Blindness in Online General Chemistry Laboratories
3D printed intraocular lens for managing the color blindness
📚 Books worth reading
Guess How Much I Love YouSam McBratney, Anita Jeram · 1994
The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad IslandOliver Sacks · 1996
The Day the Crayons QuitDrew Daywalt · 2013
The colour-senseGrant Allen · 1879
Tests for colour-blindnessShinobu Ishihara · 1948
Shades of GreyJasper Fforde · 2008
Color-vision and color-blindnessJohn Ellis Jennings · 1896
Colour-BlindnessMary Collins · 2015
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Congenital red–green color blindness Congenital red–green color blindness is an inherited condition that is the root cause of the majority of cases of color blindness. It has no significant…
- Monochromacy Monochromacy (from Greek mono, meaning "one" and chromo, meaning "color") is the ability of organisms to perceive only light intensity without respect…
- Dichromacy Dichromacy (from Greek di 'two' and chromo 'color'[citation needed]) is the state of having two types of functioning photoreceptors, called cone cells…
- EnChroma EnChroma are a brand of color corrective lenses designed to address the symptoms of red–green color blindness. Studies have shown that these lenses can…
- Trichromacy Trichromacy or trichromatism is the possession of three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different types of…
- Tetrachromacy Tetrachromacy (from Ancient Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chroma, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying…
- Cone cell Cone cells or cones are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the vertebrate eye. Cones are active in daylight conditions and enable photopic vision, as…
- Gene therapy for color blindness Gene therapy for color blindness is an experimental gene therapy of the human retina aiming to grant typical trichromatic color vision to individuals with…